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If the depressed character recovers, it will probably lead to a [[He's Back]] moment.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* A realistic occurrence takes place in ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]'', after Tenma is demoted and then dumped by his [[Rich Bitch|cold bitch of a fiancee.]] And said fiancee, Eva, does it as well... [[Lady Drunk|for years.]]

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' features two examples. The first one is played straight, and it comes from in the ''R'' season,: Usagi notices that Mamoru has a "new" girlfriend {{spoiler|(he doesn't, but since he believes he cannot be with hyer, he puts on a [[Jerkass Facade]] and pretends that Unazuki is his new girl)}} and she tries to [[Comfort Food|drown her sorrows in dumplings]]; when Luna tries to reprimand her, she cries and says she's too depressed to care about getting fat. The second is far more [[Played for Laughs]] and happens in the Super S season, when Naru is manipulated into dating Tiger's Eye for three months after he claimed he was going to die, her boyfriend Umino goes on a drinking binge ''with fifteen milkshakes''; Chibiusa is grossed out and [[Lampshade Hanging|comments on this]], even pointing out that sake is the traditional beverage for such behavior.

** Subverted by Urd, who ''needs'' to drink to {{spoiler|restore her powers.}}

* Jeanne takes to drinking vodka by the bottle in ''[[Rose of Versailles (Manga)|Rose of Versailles]]'' after the Affair of the Necklace. Oscar is also occasionally seen surrounded by empty wine bottles.

* Mark Printzen in chapter ten of ''[[The Ollivander Children (Fanfic)|The Ollivanders At War]]''. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.

* In ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'', Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. [[I Just Want to Be Special|He's dying of jealousy]] because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell, because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a [[Beard of Sorrow]], though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a [[He's Back]] moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.

* Sirius Black tries this in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117] of ''The Moment It Began'' after {{spoiler|his brother Regulus dies.}}

 

* ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' invokes the trope twice; first Indy drowns his sorrows when he thinks {{spoiler|Marion was blown up by the Nazis}}, then Belloq ''thinks'' he's drowning his sorrows with Marion, but [[Foreshadowing|as we already know]], she's drinking him under the table to try and escape.

* The explanation given for why Michael was in prison for a year in ''[[Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day]]'': He planned on asking a girl to marry him, but she didn't show, so he opened up the bottle of champagne he brought, and in the course of a bottle decided the best course of action was to get her a new ring. From the Tower of London.

* Tecate beer is common for this trope, as it is one of the few beer brands that will pay for product placement even when characters use it in this way:

** ''[[Hellboy (Film)|Hellboy]] II''

* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'', Sam Vimes was like this up until his marriage to Sybil Ramkin. In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]'', Nobby Nobbs is told he's heir to the title of the Earl of Ankh, and Nobby's fear of responsibility briefly drives him to drink. In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Soul Music|Soul Music]]'', one of the methods [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] tries to forget his troubles is drinking, but all it does is make him even more depressed. He does manage to make an awesome drunken speech (and drunken collapse) though.

** The Luggage, an animated chest whose sentience is debatable, [[Discworld (Literature)/Sourcery|once]] got itself drunk on orakh ([[Gargle Blaster|liquor made from cactus sap and scorpion venom]], used to mitigate the effects of [[Klatchian Coffee]]) after being rejected by Conina.

* ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]'' has a fair amount of this going on. Louis in ''Interview with the Vampire'' not only drinks away his sorrows but picks fights and sleeps with prostitutes, hoping to get himself killed. Later in ''Blackwood Farm'' Quinn also drinks away his sorrows and his fears. In ''Queen of the Damned,'' this is slightly subverted, as Daniel Molloy tries to drink away his madness (from the knowledge that vampires are real).

* Averted and played straight in ''[[Star Wars|Starfighters]] [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|of]] [[X Wing Series|Adumar]]'' - Wedge heads to a bar mostly for privacy while he thinks through some questions of honor vs. the chain of command (he doesn't get very drunk, either). However, at the bar, he runs across {{spoiler|Admiral Rogriss}}, who decided the answer to his problem ([[Not So Different|basically the same as Wedge's]]) was to get stone drunk.

'''Prince:''' Ashamed of what?<br />

'''Tippler:''' Ashamed of drinking! }}

{{quote| Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.}}

* Happens in the [[Night Huntress]] series. Three days after {{spoiler|Bones leaves her}}, Cat's apartment is littered with empty gin bottles and ice cream cartons.

== Live Action TV ==

* Almost every (major) character has done this at least once on ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]''. Probably most notable is the occasion when Dr Cox spends around a solid week doing this after {{spoiler|killing three patients by causing them to have rabies-infected organs transplanted}} and needs babysitting by all the other characters.

** There's also a game aptly titled 'Bartender' where one player acts as the bartender and the other three sing their sorrows out (which are provided by the audience members.)

* Kirsten in ''[[The OC]]''.

* Probably the best way to explain Meredith's relationship with tequila, on ''[[Greys Anatomy]]'', is through this delightful quote, by, of all people, Alex Karev, who wasn't exactly her BFF:

{{quote| '''Alex:''' When your life is sucky you get drunk and sleep with inappropriate men. It's your thing.}}

{{quote| '''Hawkeye:''' Drowning your sorrows, Margaret?<br />

'''Margaret:''' No... just taking them out for a little swim. }}

** ''[[You Are Beautiful]]'': Go Mi Nam gets drunk on champaigne his first night and ends up throwing up on the lead singer of the band he just joined. This is after throwing up in a flower pot, {{spoiler|and before anyone knows he's a girl}}.

* In the ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' episode "[[Community (TV)/Recap/S2 E10 Mixology Certification|Mixology Certification]]" Annie starts off the night odering Root Beers but as she gets progressively worked up about planning out her entire life sheeventually ends up switching to screwdrivers.

* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Cory does this once after his break up with Topanga in season five. In a later episode, Shawn does this after {{spoiler|he is unable to find his real mother.}}

* In the third episode of ''[[Black Mirror (TV)|Black Mirror]]'' Liam ends up getting drunk after suspecting his wife was flirting with another man. Decides to get the babysitter involved before driving over and attacking the guy.

* "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" by John Lee Hooker, later [[Covered Up|covered]] by George Thorogood.

* "Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisley, oddly by both the cheated-on soldier or his cheating girlfriend. It...doesn't help.

** As of late, [[Ascended Fanon|she and Akita Neru]] eventually became official vocaloids and Haku's popularity led to a rise of instances she was shown to be much more capable of singing than she used to. If it isn't for the previous reason of her dreams of singing as beautifully as Miku being shattered that makes her drink herself into stupor, she does so for the fun or sake of it and usually is portrayed as sluggish, lazy and clumsy, [[Pet the Dog|but a little more happy than originally portrayed]].

*** Of course, this has in turn been met with mixed receptions, since Haku, as mentioned above, is supposed to be the Anthropomorphic Personification of people who fail to use the Vocaloid software effectively/correctly, and doing a bad Miku song/Haku song on purpose defeats, in itself, Haku's raison d'etre. <ref>After all, you're not a failure if you've successfully, and with intent, failed.</ref> It's all kinda complicated and rather [[Fan Dumb]]-y.

** Hinted at with Fenris in [[Dragon Age II]]. Hawke can find him drunk on the anniversary of his escape, which could also be the same day {{spoiler|the people who helped him were killed by his hands.}} Oddly, though, he's more cheerful drunk than he normally is.

* ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'': After the murder of her daughter, Sallie Graham starts spending a lot of time getting drunk at the SWERY '65 bar.

* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' DLC ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', you can find info on [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Captain Anderson]] that due to the pressure of being in politics and working with the head-up-their-asses Citadel Council, he's since taken up heavy drinking.

** And watching conspiracy vids, just to see how much bull the public is fed, probably bringing Udina along just to see the conspiracy shitstorm

* Steve from ''[[Questionable Content]]'' does this rather hard in between relationships, and Faye will occasionally tend towards it a little bit too. {{spoiler|Marten did it REALLY hard, drinking a whole bottle after Dora's break-up with him.}}

* [[Immortal Immaturity|China]] from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' was {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|attacked by his brother Japan]]}} and went to a bar to cry about it... only to have the [[Mood Killer|mood killed]] by [[Stepford Smiler|Russia]].

* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'' [http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1310311/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-30/ a father who drinks himself into oblivion every night is a good motive to help someone else who lost his family.]

* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-81/ Captain Victory is slipping away a hip flask when he and Max first meet] -- and he's suffering from [[Survivor Guilt]].

* Occurs in the ''[[Recess]]'' episode, "I Will Kick No More Forever", when Vince starts losing his touch in every sport. The scene that features this trope is when he stays home from school binging out on root beer and donuts (complete with [[Balloon Belly]]) while watching video recordings of his previous games. Mikey even asks, "Don't you think you've had enough!?"

* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Ass Burgers", this is effectively what the cynics do, all [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|ridiculousness]] aside. By the end of the episode, this is {{spoiler|what Stan turns to, [[Negative Continuity|possibly]] on a long-term basis, just to get through a normal day.}}

* [[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]] features Bolin doing this with [[Drunk On Milk|noodles]] after he sees {{spoiler|his crush Korra kiss his brother}}. He becomes uncoordinated, sullen and the next day is clearly hungover.

 

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